Free Writes Local News Spring has sprung. We do not expect any more frosts. Atindra and Lalita-kaisori came by to plant flowers for the Deities in our gardens. They planted marigolds and gladiolas, and then vegetables in Trinidad-Bala’s fenced in garden plot down the street. They didn’t come in the house because of social distancing, […]

Free Writes Springtime at Stuyvesant Falls Columbia County has fewer cases of Covid-19 than the other counties. The post office at Stuyvesant Falls is very small and only allows three people in the building at once. That’s because with more than three, they can’t maintain the six-foot social distancing. Yesterday two neighbors hired professionals to […]

Announcement: I have been invited by my disciple Madana-Gopala dasa to give a Krsna conscious internet talk on Zoom and Youtube on Saturday, May 9 at 11:00 A.M. EST. The Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/ud7rxd4 The Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/iskconofnj This will be a live broadcast, and I invite all FWJ readers and other interested parties to tune in. Free Writes Narasimhadeva’s Appearance Day We cannot […]

Announcement: I have been invited by my disciple Madana-Gopala dasa to give a Krsna conscious internet talk on Zoom and Youtube on Saturday, May 9 at 11:00 A.M. EST. The Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/ud7rxd4 The Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/iskconofnj This will be a live broadcast, and I invite all FWJ readers and other interested parties to tune […]

Free Writes Jayadvaita Swami’s Phone Call Jayadvaita Maharaja phoned me just to make an update and friendly contact. He’s moved out of New York City and is staying in the temple at Towaco, New Jersey. He gives three Bhagavatam lectures a week which are broadcast over the internet and watched by shut-ins. He told me […]

Free Writes Writing We are planning to publish and distribute two books at my July 4th meeting of disciples and friends. We already have one book printed and in hand. I hope the coronavirus epidemic will not threaten the printing of the second book and that the printers will stay open for business. Nitai-Gaurasundara told […]

Free Writes Vrndavana Mahimamrta I’m listening to the Govardhana Retreats and Sacinandana Swami is reading from Prabhodhananda Sarasvati’s Vrndavana Mahimamrta. The author very intensely addresses the readers and says, “Go immediately to Vrndavana and don’t leave. Don’t listen to anyone who would stop you, or break any attachments that would keep you away.” Vrndavana, staying […]

Free Writes Baladeva He calls himself a sudra with no qualities. I say, “No, you are a brahmana-Vaisnava.” He says, “Then I am a sudra-Vaisnava.” I reply, “You are transcendental.” He works hard all day as my medical caretaker, my medical proxy, in dealings with doctors and nurses. He says he is “sleep-deprived by the […]